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Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026) said CPI(M) person and erstwhile Minister A.K. Balan’s “schismatic” connection that “the Jamaat-e-Islami would power the Home department” if the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) came to powerfulness successful the State echoed “a Hindu majoritarian position which sought to represent Muslims arsenic subaltern citizens and disrupters.”
Speaking to reporters successful Thiruvananthapuram, Mr. Satheesan compared Mr. Balan’s connection to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s canvass run successful Gujarat (in the twelvemonth Narendra Modi became the Chief Minister for the archetypal clip successful that State). Mr. Satheesan noted that the BJP had claimed astatine the hustings that “Ahmed Patel, a Muslim by birth, would go Chief Minister if the Congress came to power” successful Gujarat then.
Mr. Satheesan said the CPI(M) was “increasingly speaking successful the aforesaid bigoted dependable of the Sangh Parivar.” He alleged that the enactment had backslid into becoming “an apologist” for SNDP Yogam wide caput Vellappally Natesan, who has made a “habit of recurrently villainising” Muslims, particularly those successful northbound Kerala.
He said the CPI(M)’s “rightward drift” has destabilised the LDF. The CPI(M) has attacked Communist Party of India (CPI) State caput Binoy Viswam for “calling retired Mr. Natesan’s schismatic politics.” Mr. Viswam had signalled that the CPI(M) should dissociate the LDF from divisive voices successful nine and condemn attempts to teardrop Kerala’s secular fabric. “The CPI(M) responded by branding Mr. Viswam a traitor,” helium said.
Mr. Satheesan said the Jamaat-e-Islami had go an anathema for the CPI(M) aft the organisation withdrew its four-decade-long unconditional enactment for the LDF. He said the CPI(M)’s “spite” for the Muslim organisation stemmed from the LDF’s nonaccomplishment to unafraid number assemblage enactment successful the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. “Subsequently, the CPI(M) changed tack, abandoned secular authorities and is stoking Hindutva to get majoritarian votes,” helium alleged.
Mr. Satheesan’s onslaught connected the CPI(M) comes against the backdrop of the party’s territory secretariat subordinate successful Palakkad, A.K. Ajayakumar, attacking Mr. Viswam for “putting the LDF connected the defensive” during the important section assemblage polls.
(Mr. Viswam had stridently opposed the government’s “surreptitious signing” of the “revanchist” New Education Policy (NEP)-linked PM-SHRI strategy to merchandise national backing for schoolhouse education, opening the doorway for the UDF to weaponise the determination arsenic LDF’s alleged capitulation to the Sangh Parivar docket during the section assemblage campaign).
Mr. Ajayakumar had besides accused Mr. Viswam and the CPI of lacking the governmental heft to prosecute successful one-upmanship wrong the LDF and alleged that Mr. Viswam was playing to the assemblage to people brownie points with the right-wing media.
CPI(M) affirms unity with CPI
Meanwhile, E.N. Suresh Babu, CPI(M) territory secretary, Palakkad, sought to dissociate the enactment from Mr. Ajayakumar’s contentious remarks. Speaking to reporters successful Palakkad, helium said the CPI(M)-CPI unity laid the groundwork for the LDF’s consecutive victories successful the past 2 Assembly elections.
“The solidarity remains arsenic steadfast arsenic ever. Moreover, specified comments against Mr. Viswam are unwarranted and necessitate urgent rectification,” helium said.
